Reporting State Payroll Tax Liabilities

This chapter provides an overview of state payroll tax reporting and discusses how to run the State Payroll Tax report.

Understanding State Payroll Tax Reporting

The State Payroll Tax report provides detailed information about the earnings, benefits, deductions, and expenses that are identified as payroll taxable or payroll tax exempt. Details are also provided for termination payments that are payroll tax exempt

Note. The State Payroll Tax report is not a complete representation of payroll tax liabilities. Other payments and earnings that are administered outside the PeopleSoft system should be included in any returns submitted to the State Revenue Office. This may include details of companies that form part of a group but are administered outside the PeopleSoft system.

If an employee moves to a different state during a reporting period, the system uses the Job record that is valid at the time of payment of state payroll tax. For example, suppose that a weekly employee has four pay periods in the month, and the employee moves to another state during the fourth pay period. That fourth pay period is reported for the new payroll tax state.

Running the State Payroll Tax Report

The GPAU_SPT_RPT Application Engine process extracts data for state payroll tax reporting, and that data is formatted as a report by the GPAUT01 Structured Query Report.

Page Used to Run the State Payroll Tax Report

Page Name	Object Name	Navigation	Usage
State Payroll Tax Report	GPAU_RC_SPT	Global Payroll & Absence Mgmt, Taxes, Payroll Tax Report AUS, State Payroll Tax Report	Report the data extracted by the GPAU_SPT_RPT process.

Reporting State Payroll Tax Data

Access the State Payroll Tax Report page.

Group Pay Entity	Enter the group pay entity that you created in the Group Entity table.
State Payroll Tax Base Date	Select the SPT base date. Options are Pay End Date, Payment Date, and Earlier of End/Payment Dates. With weekly and fortnightly pay frequencies, it is not always clear in which month the earnings should be included for payroll tax purposes. Some pay periods span two months. This field determines the month to which earnings are attributable for payroll tax purposes.